I held up a brown box today
and told students we were going to discuss what was inside. Eyes grew wide with curiosity as to what exactly was in the box. Carefully, I opened it and held up a Google
Home. Audible gasps, cheers, and questions filled the air.
Sharing with the students the
Google Home would stay in the box until we learned about it, students began to
comment that I am always teaching them new
technology with a purpose. They
were directed to Google Classroom where a new Google Presentation awaited them.
This would guide our journey into using Google Home.
Our initial
task was to discover what Google Home can do. We watched a short video and
made a list of observations of the power of Google Home.
Then we read
a CNet
article about commands that can be given to Google Home, adding to our extensive list of ideas that Google Home is
capable of. Students also learned that CNet is a great
site to visit for all things technology.
We learned
our Google Home is attached to a clean Google account with nothing on it and
other important pieces of important information.
Students
were then given some time to develop a list of ideas of how we could use Google
Home in a classroom setting. They identified their top 3 ideas and posted them to our class padlet. Check out
their thinking.
I was not
surprised to see so many students want to use it for math, music, and
definitions of words. However I also saw
bigger ideas students were thinking about Google Home like using it as a tool
to help them, make new discoveries, and communicate.
I cannot
wait for tomorrow where we begin to
take their ideas and determine best practices for using Gogle Home in our
classroom! Stay tuned
as we will discussing privacy, our responsible use policy, and guidelines for
the Google Home!
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